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See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. |
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*** New “guix package --search” option |
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Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns |
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the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the |
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manual, for details. |
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*** New “guix pull” command |
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The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management |
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The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently |
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downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are |
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available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. See |
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the manual for details. |
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available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The |
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distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there. |
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See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of |
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available binary packages. |
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*** New “guix refresh” command |
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Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for |
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details. |
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*** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS |
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*** Nix daemon code updated |
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It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. |
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The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated |
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to current Nix ‘master’. |
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** Programming interfaces |
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*** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS |
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It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. |
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*** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields |
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Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables |
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*** Noteworthy new packages |
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TeXLive, Xorg, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, CHICKEN, |
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Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |
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TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, |
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CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |
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